“This document is not a sermon, this is a ‘how to’ manual for what they plan to do if there’s ever civil war or a government collapse. These people are focused on the apocalypse. And quite frankly, they’re happy to push that into happening,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told the Daily News.

The sheriff said he received a copy of the manifesto two months ago and forwarded it to the FBI for investigation.

He said the document was leaked by people in Shea’s inner-circle who believe his leadership is causing division and a “dangerous situation.”

“I had this document for 2 ½ months and no one heard a word out of me because I didn’t want to interfere with the investigation. These are people in Shea’s security wing who broke it during the election cycle. They’re afraid he’ll be re-elected,” Knezovich said.

The sheriff said that based on the manifesto and local sources, he believes Shea is pushing ideologies from the Aryan and American Redoubt movements.

“The endgame is the same as the map of the Redoubt movement, the same as the white supremacy map in the 1990s. They want to make a white homeland,” the sheriff said.

“They want to have a theocracy, and if you don’t find their ideology or makeup, you’re not going to do too well in this state,” he said.

Spokane Public Radio reported Tuesday that several Shea campaign contributors were reassessing their support of the candidate.

“His beliefs do not reflect the views and values of our organization, member credit unions, or customers,” Lynn Heider, a spokeswoman for The Northwest Credit Union, told the NPR member station.

The credit union’s PAC made a $1,000 donation to Shea this year but reportedly wants the money back.

Avista Corp, meanwhile, donated $2,000 to Shea and told SPR it was reviewing the so-called manifesto and future contributions.

“Going forward, there are actions that any particular candidate engages in, I’m not necessarily distinguishing Rep. Shea, but there are things that clearly conflict with the values of our company. We will take those into consideration in deciding whether to support a candidate in the future,” company spokesman Collins Sprague told SPR.

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Shea said in his Facebook Live video that he was not promoting violence with the document and that its contents had been taken out of context.

He said the “counter-state” was “working overtime” to slander him though a “Maoist insurgency model” ahead of the midterms.

He also argued the U.S. is indisputably a “Christian nation” and said the two main counter-states threatening its survival are the “Marxists” and “Islamists.”

Shea blasted Rolling Stone magazine for a recent “hit piece” that explored his ties to right-wing and extremist groups.

The recent piece highlighted Shea’s ties to the Holocaust-denying pastor of the Lordship Church in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, as well as rogue rancher Cliven Bundy and InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Shea did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily News.